Taking Your Losses

posted by John Lampard on Saturday, 16 February, 2008 to the comment subset

Taking Your Losses

When coming up short puts you ahead, the latest article at Jugglezine, by Todd Pitock.

I am, I confess, prone to obsessing over slights, snubs, and spite. A psychologist working through an exercise in how to understand your approach to the world once did an exercise in which the audience got to finish the sentence “life is…” The irrepressible six-year-old who still lives inside me folded his arms over his chest, blew air through his lower lip, and said, “No fair!” The trouble with people who worry about fairness is that they can’t rest until justice is done.

Kenny Rogers will be delighted to see that some of the lyrics of his song “The Gambler” are cited in this article. “You gotta learn when to hold ‘em and know when to fold ‘em.” Was Kenny Rogers also a psychologist?

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